Do More Faster India, 2nd Edition

Foreword to Do More Faster India

Moving back to the United States, and a mix CD, changed my life.

In 2010, I moved to Boston for love—to follow my wife who was starting her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Ten years earlier, after graduating with a computer science degree from the University of Texas at Austin as an immigrant student from India, I became part of the founding team at a startup called United Devices. We had a fantastic run. I learned a ton as a developer, a team lead, and a product manager. My final role was to start and build operations in India and Europe. I set up and groomed our pre‐ and post‐sales organization in Europe, and eventually blossomed into a sales leader.

I left United Devices after our acquisition and moved to Boston to join my wife. Suddenly, I felt I was back to square one—back in the United States in a new city with no friends, no network, and no job. I was not sure what I wanted to do next, but I had to do something.

After spending some time being what I jokingly called a “kept man to my doctoral student wife,” I eventually decided it was time to work on something new again. I came up with the idea for Kinvey, a company that was going to build a cloud platform to make it easier for developers and enterprises to build and run the next generation of web, mobile, and wearable apps. I called it “Backend as a Service.” But I was at a loss on how I would go about doing it. Creating development platforms for mission‐critical apps required a lot of ...